“The last grievance in the Declaration of Independence is about 'merciless Indian savages' [...] According to our founders, in their own words, the thing that they were most angry about was Native people.”
Cherokee historian #RebeccaNagle talks about her new podcast series #FirstAmerica
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/6/30/rebecca_nagle_first_america
(v. https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/first-america)
#Indigenous #NativeAmericans #NativeAmericanHistory #UShistory #AmericanHistory #colonialViolence #decolonialStruggles #documentaries
“Merciless Indian Savages”: Cherokee Podcaster on Racist Slur in the Declaration of Independence
Ahead of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July Fourth, we speak to award-winning Cherokee author and journalist Rebecca Nagle about what’s missing from the conventional story of the American Revolution.
“The last grievance in the Declaration of Independence is about 'merciless Indian savages,'” says Rebecca Nagle. “According to our founders, in their own words, the thing that they were most angry about was Native people.” She also argues that the “biggest myth” is that the founders built a democracy, “because they also built an empire,” and that the two can’t coexist.
Nagle partnered with leading Indigenous scholars on a new documentary podcast called First America. The series challenges the conventional U.S. origin story by examining the experiences of Indigenous peoples, and traces how laws and legal doctrines first used to dispossess Indigenous nations continue to impact questions of executive power, immigration, xenophobia, citizenship, territorial expansion and U.S. foreign policy today.
Nagle links the dark history of the United States’ founding to ongoing oppression in the country. “I would be reporting on America’s past, and then the same thing would happen in our present,” she says. “Rounding people up, putting people in detention, even shooting anybody who gets in the way, these are things that our government has done before — not once, not twice, but many, many times.”
What’s fuelling residential school denialism? | Front Burner | CBC Podcasts | CBC Listen
A warning: this episode discusses the trauma and harms surrounding Canada's residential school history. Please listen with care.
So much of what we know about Canada's residential schools has been established as fact. More than 150 thousand Indigenous children and youth were taken from their families and required to attend these schools. Several thousand students died.
Although all of this is well-documented and verified, there has been a growing discourse calling those facts into question. Researchers, commentators and some politicians have really zeroed in on the 2021 discovery of suspected graves near a former residential school in Kamloops.
Academics and Indigenous leaders call this residential school denialism — similar to Holocaust denialism. Many of them have called for adding the denial of residential school history to the Criminal Code as a form of hate speech.
Earlier this month, a Nunavut senator brought forward a motion to amend Bill C-9, the Liberals’ anti hate bill, to do just that – but it was voted down.
Sean Carleton and Niigaan Sinclair have been tracking the rise of residential school denialism in Canada. Their book, “Truth Before Reconciliation: Confronting Residential School Denialism”, comes out this September.
For transcripts of Front Burner, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/frontburner/transcripts [https://www.cbc.ca/radio/frontburner/transcripts]
" #Israel's nearly four-month air and ground campaign that it says was targeting Iran-backed armed group Hezbollah has damaged or destroyed revered #heritageSites across southern #Lebanon, Lebanese Culture Minister Ghassan Salame told Reuters."
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-damaged-heritage-sites-across-south-lebanon-minister-says-2026-06-28/
#warOnLebanon #SouthLebanon #colonialViolence
Elie Mystal and Angela Rye: Do Black Lives Matter in Law? | The Joy Reid Show
"The wars in southern #Lebanon and #Gaza are exceptional in the degree to which #Israel has been directly targeting medical infrastructure—not to strain it but to literally flatten it. In Gaza this pattern was noted early on: Israel dropped its bombs closer and closer to medical facilities, then switched to carrying out direct strikes with impunity." - #MaryTurfah
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/06/24/safety-is-when-theres-no-one-dying-lebanon-children/
https://archive.ph/sfayI
#Palestine #SouthLebanon #warCrimes #colonialViolence #violenceAgainstChildren
Safety Is When There’s No One Dying | Mary Turfah
The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children’s Fund is based in the Blue Building, a medical center across from the American University of Beirut, in the city’s Hamra
What Indigenous People Think of the 250th: The First America Podcast Series w/ Rebecca Nagle
"Where do you begin to make sense of it being #Palestine that must deradicalise? How do you credit the viciously oppressed being told that it is they who must commit to offering no threat to #Israel, their oppressor?"
#FintanDrury, author of Genocide: Sponsoring the Destruction of Palestine
https://www.irishnews.com/news/northern-ireland/how-the-west-sponsored-the-destruction-of-palestine-OQQHTLXG2BHU5GM5RTFKN4LTBI/
#Gaza #GazaGenocide #imperialism #colonialViolence #books @bookstodon
How the West sponsored the destruction of Palestine
Fintan Drury argues in his book ‘Genocide: Sponsoring the Destruction of Palestine’ that the impunity Israel enjoys from Western powers is the single greatest obstacle to peace
Makdisi Street Reviews w/ Eyal Weizman
"The bombing runs may be quieter, but the bulldozers roar on. #Israel is tearing up homes, orchards, schools and hospitals, then flattening the rubble to erase the memory that Palestinian life was ever there.
"To understand this architecture of death, Richard Hames spoke to #EyalWeizman, author of #Ungrounding: The Architecture of Genocide and founder of #ForensicArchitecture"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPGKCuiSOgg
#Gaza #GazaGenocide #Palestine #colonialViolence #stateCrime #infographics #books @bookstodon
Israel is LITERALLY Burying Evidence of its Genocide | Richard Hames meets Eyal Weizman
Paria sans portefeuille
Native Calgarian Podcast
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